Steven Martin ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>... But I think you may be missing the forest for the trees. When he
>wrote Das Lied the words to the Der Abscheid are literally saying farewell.
>Could he perhaps maybe possibly be talking about Death? This coming from a
>man that was just told of a heart condition. Methinks this is one whale
>of a coincidence.
But I'm not denying this. What I was arguing with was your seeming to
promulgate the old notion that Mahler was some sort of death-obsessed
neurotic. He wasn't.
>Saying that Mahler suffered many tragedies in his life and seemed to deal
>with Death and the afterlife in his compositions does not strike me as an
>unreasonable conclusion for people to reach looking at the man and his
>music.
Agreed - but that wasn't exactly what you originally said.
Deryk Barker
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